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Turkey launched a two-pronged "anti-terror" cross-border offensive against ISIL and PKK militants after a wave of violence in the country, pounding their positions with air strikes and artillery.
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Turkish fighter jets bombed positions of ISIS militants inside Syria for the first time, in a dramatic escalation of fighting after the killing of a Turkish soldier in cross-border clashes.
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A recently revealed official document showed that negligence and an intelligence failure were the main reasons behind the deadly bombing, which killed 32 people in the southeastern town of Suruç on Monday.
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The interim Justice and Development Party government was criticized by opposition party members for reportedly trying to force an intervention into Syria and the continuation of appointments of pro-AK Party figures to bureaucratic posts.
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Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) sustained a major blow in the general election, failing to obtain enough votes to form a single-party government, although it is still the party that received the most votes.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is demanding a life sentence, an aggravated life sentence and an additional 42-year term of imprisonment for the editor-in-chief of the Cumhuriyet newspaper.
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High-level officials from the UN and Europe stated their opposition to any form of arms transfer to the warring sides in Syria, after viewing a video showing a Syria-bound truck loaded with arms in southern Turkey.
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Reporters Without Borders called on Turkey's president to stop threatening journalists and interfering in the judiciary, as it voiced support for the Cumhuriyet daily, which faces a probe over a story on an alleged Turkish arms shipment to Syria.
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ISIL seized full control of the historic city of Palmyra in central Syria, just days after it captured a provincial capital in neighboring Iraq, suggesting momentum is building for the ultra-hard-line group.
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